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Every system in nature has a push and a pull. Just as we have a system for stress, we have a system for calm, called the parasympathetic nervous system. Unfortunately that is a system that we need to learn how to engage, as opposed to the sympathetic nervous system, which is always active. The sympathetic nervous system is like your body's alarm system, you don't want to disable it, but under conditions of stress, whether real or perceived, when the sympathetic nervous system engages the fight, flight, freeze response over a protracted period of time, it is no longer adaptive and begins to dow
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